Writes Tom McCarthy: “On top of everything else that was stupid and offensive in this hit piece, Jonathan Sandys, “the plummy Brit” you referred to, chose to perpetuate long-discredited anti-Catholic bigotry when he said that Guy Fawkes and the other plotters were “backed by the pope in Rome to blow up Parliament, blow up James I.” Nothing could be farther from the truth. Whatever the justice of the conspirators’ grievances (and there was much justice to them), the men themselves knew that there was virtually no chance that the institutional church would give them any succour. Indeed, as part of … Continue reading Anti-Catholic Bigotry on Glenn Beck